Information Services: Survey of Workplace Changes for Academic Medical Library Staff
Submitted by Jennifer C. Westrick, AHIP, and Ashley Heard, and Scott Thomson, AHIP, Library, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, ILIntroductionAcademic medical libraries are dealing with…
Information Services: A User Alert Statement for Predatory and Dubious Journals
Submitted by Louisa Verma, AHIP, Center for Health Evidence, Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, CA, and Lindsay Barnett, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT The…
Anti-racist resources and follow up questions: a recent aggregation
Good morning Medical Informatics Caucus members, Below I have aggregated some of the anti-racist resources and questions shared with me in the past two weeks.…
Information Management: Preprints in the Age of COVID-19
Submitted by Rachel Pinotti, AHIP, Levy Library, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; edited by Marie T. Ascher The COVID-19 pandemic…
Significant Changes to EFTS and DOCLINE after June 30, 2020
The University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) is transferring the operations of the Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) to MLA in a timeline agreed to…
Information Services: Data-Driven LibGuide Development during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Submitted by Cecelia Vetter, Samantha Kennefick, and Lilian Hoffecker, AHIP, Strauss Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus–Aurora; edited by Christy Tyson As…
Information Services: Is a Single Platform for Tracking Interface Issues Feasible? The UX Caucus Thinks So!
Submitted by Louisa Verma, AHIP, Library, Center for Health Evidence, Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, CA, and Andy Hickner, Samuel J. Wood Library & C.V. Starr…
I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means: How COVID-19 Systematic Reviews Don’t Fit the Mold
Submitted by Aidy Weeks, AHIP, UNLV Health Sciences Library, University of Nevada–Las Vegas, and Kathryn Vela, AHIP, Portland VA Healthcare System, Portland, OR A global…
Personals
Beginning this quarter, MLAConnect will publish a list of retirement and memorial announcements about MLA members. There are times that MLA staff or former colleagues…
Education: Make That Transition from Face-to-Face to Virtual Instruction
Many health sciences librarians employed in academic institutions can come to feel pressured to enhance medical library education by offering online courses versus traditional face-to-face…
EFTS Update: February 27, 2020
Your MLAÂ Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) team has been hard at work to implement the new EFTS. Latest news 610 libraries have completed their EFTS…
EFTS User Agreements Now Available
On Friday January 17, 812 libraries received the MLA Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) user agreement for their review. Here are some fun facts: 300…
Medical Library Education: Acronyms and Initialisms
Rooting out topics worthy of mention or of special significance to medical library education can be a challenging yet at the same time rewarding pursuit,…
Developments Fall 2019 v. 31 #1
Developments Fall 2019 v. 31 #1 From the Editor Message from the Chair Get to Know Collection Development Members Watch and Learn Focus on Types…
750+ Libraries Support the New EFTS
Great news, and thank you! 750+ libraries have expressed their interest to join the new EFTS by requesting a user agreement from MLA. MLA will…
EFTS Is Here to Stay
Poem posted to MEDLIB-L on November 22, 2019, by Fred King, AHIP Subject: Re: We need 75% of current EFTS users to keep the system…
Kickstart the New EFTS Platform: Update
As you may have learned (and apologies if you have already received a similar message), MLA has developed the specifications of a new Electronic Funds…
Kickstart the New EFTS Platform
MLA has developed the specifications of a new Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) platform. MLA will proceed with actual development and implementation if a minimum…
Update on EFTS Continuation
Submitted by Kevin Baliozian, MLA Executive Director, and Janice Swiatek, Director, Lyman Maynard Stowe Library, University of Connecticut (UConn) Health Center–Farmington On July 18, 2019,…
MLA October Webinar: Find the Light in a Grey Literature Search!
Being asked to do a grey literature search does not have to darken your mood. If you know how to identify the most valuable types…